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Phoenix

HA! hindend 101, if this idiotic idea goes through maybe Bob will help you get a job emptying the trash at the stadium for it's first and only season in business. People might go as a novelty, but this is a poor city. It could not be sustained for any length of time. People are not going to waste money amusing themselves at a venue that is set up, from the get go, for vultures to overcharge the plebes.

hindsight1o1

MadAsHeck

For decades citizens have called for a venue where concerts and conventions could be held. A baseball diamond does not fit that bill. Baseball has failed time and time again in Parkersburg, this is a terrible idea and a money sink.

Mack76

Not that he had any credibility to begin with, but hindend101 lost whatever shred he may have had left when he suggested a vacant, money-sucking ballpark be used for a "wet Tshirt contest" during the summer. You have issues, particularly since it is you that loves to question others' morality and ethics so much on a public forum. You should seek professional help, as well as an English tutor.

hindsight

Just another one of BOB'S pipe dreams. in the end it will be just like the up towner INN. You have to hve an econemy for business to prevail muchless want to move. The onlt way that will happen is to repeal all the nice restrictions that keep coming along from the feds. That won't happen either as it apears WV is the lapdog for DC. You see states all over using the 10th amendment and standing up to try and keep rights and business a float. Sadly not WV. I doubt I will ever come back as things appear WV will never stand for its citizen's as other states are doing now.

hindsight1o1

hindsight1o1

Oh yes, the infamous "snowball effect" Let's see, when they UNB built the 7 story building downtown it was going to revitalize downtown and bring it into the modern error - Never happened. The Blue Cross/Blue Shield building made the same claim - Never happened. And don't forget about the completion of Corridor D. We are still waiting for the economic boom on that one. This "build it and they will come" philosophy ended at the conclusion of the movie "Field of Dreams" Hopefully, the feasability study will show this one way or another.

BakerKat

A convention center would be usable even if it is raining. A ball field would be useless in the pouring rain for "other events". It is moot - soon we will all be too worried about paying taxes to go do anything fun.

JoeBobAcabra

I tend to agree with North about an indoor convention center being a better regional draw. But if we're going to build a baseball park we should get baseball-crazy Marietta involved. Their small college baseball team is multiple time national champions! Shouldn't that be part of a regional ballpark plan?